Bibliograph

Silver sparrow, by Tayari Jones

Type

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Silver sparrow, by Tayari Jones

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Intended audience

770L, Lexile

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Silver sparrow

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

794176733

Responsibility statement

by Tayari Jones

Summary

With the opening line of Silver Sparrow,?My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist,? author Tayari Jones unveils a breathtaking story about a man?s deception, a family?s complicity, and two teenage girls caught in the middle. Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the 1980s, the novel revolves around James Witherspoon?s two families?the public one and the secret one. When the daughters from each family meet and form a friendship, only one of them knows they are sisters. It is a relationship destined to explode when secrets are revealed and illusions shattered. As Jones explores the backstories of her rich yet flawed characters?the father, the two mothers, the grandmother, and the uncle?she also reveals the joy, as well as the destruction, they brought to one another?s lives. At the heart of it all are the two lives at stake, and like the best writers?think Toni Morrison with The Bluest Eye?Jones portrays the fragility of these young girls with raw authenticity as they seek love, demand attention, and try to imagine themselves as women, just not as their mothers

Table Of Contents

Cover; Praise for Silver Sparrow; Title; Copyright; Also by Tayari Jones; Dedication; Epigraph; Part I Dana Lynn Yarboro; 1 The Secret; 2 A Sort of Creeping Love; 3 Notes on Precocity; 4 Grand Gesture; 5 Heart Dreams; 6 Think about It; 7 I Dare You; 8 Fig Leaf; 9 No Quarrel; 10 Uncle Raleigh; 11 The Prizewinner; Part II Bunny Chaurisse Witherspoon; 12 A Peculiar Start; 13 One Hundred Percent Driven Snow; 14 A Silver Girl; 15 Girls Are Too Messy; 16 The Rest, Like They Say, Is History; 17 Time and a Half; 18 Love and Happiness; 19 Up a Notch; 20 Blowout; 21 The Men All Paused; 22 Skin Pain23 Tara24 A Mighty Poor Rat; 25 Quiz Show; 26 Epithalamium; Epilogue Dana Lynn Yarboro; Acknowledgments; Reader's Guide; A Conversation with Tayari Jones; Questions for Discussion; About the Author; Algonquin Books Blog

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